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1. Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 03:32:01 EDT Alex Schroeder 🐝

   We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.

   1. Gergely Nagy 🐁 (algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 04:00:37 EDT Gergely Nagy 🐁

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      @kensanata I've made plans with friends & family to - in case of my untimely demise - continue running my domains, and serve a static snapshot of contents. All the tools to do this are prepared, all passwords in a KeePassXC database, etc. I've written up instructions about what needs to be shut down and how, have a small amount of money set aside for a few years of hosting costs, so my content should be good for a decade or two after I'm gone. We should all be doing something similar.

   2. Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 03:35:28 EDT Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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      @kensanata Note there are also backups by public institutions http://www.bnf.fr/en/professionals/digital_legal_deposit/a.digital_legal_deposit_web_archiving.html If I die, the nationl library will have a copy of my blog :-)

      1. Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:43:16 EDT Lew Perin

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         @bortzmeyer @kensanata “If”

   3. siraben (siraben@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 05:13:56 EDT siraben

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      @kensanata There's decentralized systems like IPFS, BitTorrent, Zeronet et al. make replication of content easy, as in when you visit content you also help host it. No solution is 100% permanent, look at historical examples. But the more something is replicated the better it has a chance of standing the test of time; Epic of Gilgamesh, Shakespeare, Sanskrit scriptures and so on.

      If you want your content to last, release it under a free license, back it up using free formats, or write it down.